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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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Data-Driven B2B Marketing Themes for 2024

Fountainhead

AI tools are being increasingly used to enrich customer data; not just to add missing contact information and addresses, but to uncover individual customer use-cases, jobs-to-be-done, existing tech-stacks, previous purchase history, social network engagement and more. to add to customer profiles.

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5 Ways Digital Publishers Can Benefit from eBooks

Kitaboo

This is because they can share the digital files on their own website, through social media or dedicated online marketplaces. And of course, with eBooks publishers also achieve significant savings on reducing inventory, eliminating or minimizing warehouse costs etc. Digital Publishing: What are typical royalties for eBook writers?

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Kim Kardashian’s Instagram story just cost her $1.26 million

Vox

SEC chair Gary Gensler did a little social media influencing of his own, announcing the settlement with a tweet that included a video of him warning people about celebrity endorsements of investments. It’s a tiny fraction of her net worth, which is estimated at nearly $2 billion. Kardashian probably won’t even notice it’s missing.

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MySpace's new strategy: building a new and valuable space in social content

Trends in the Living Networks

As it happens AllThingsD yesterday put up an interesting article Trying Out a Revamped Myspace which includes this brief video review - well worth watching: The essence of the new MySpace strategy is becoming a social content platform for entertainment that complements Facebook, which has long clearly won the social network battle.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

CIO Business Intelligence

The skills shortage creates challenges, of course. We have to cast a wider net. This all builds strong social capital, and these are the ties that bind. But we are not the only industry with a talent gap. The medical industry, for example, is facing a shortage of more than 10 million physicians worldwide 3.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

If you task a developer with building a widget, the time they spend fretting about how to make it reusable can net unpredictable benefits down the road. Of course, the industry has matured a lot since McConnell’s book was released in 2004, and everyone pretty much understands the need for the cogitating phase of software development.